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Yikes. Quite the hack. Yet another reason to have signed packages. Pinned TLS fingerprints in DNS would be good to, but that isn't particularly common or well supported as far as I know. The public CA system is not great for many reasons.
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Hi, I had seen your Reddit thread where you requested feedback. I wrote a comment with some questions I had, but never heard back. I'll paste that here: (Quote) It does seem like some things have been addressed. I now see OpenBSD listed as a…
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I am not the biggest fan of Mailbox. Used it for a while. Would rather give Posteo a try, over Mailbox. Have been very happy with Mythic Beasts, though.
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Looks like it might be pretty cool. Probably worth a try. The other one that I think is interesting is Neocities: https://neocities.org/
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(Quote) Very nice! I honestly did not know that they did any injection at all. That is pretty scary. I thought for a while they were trying to move in a zero trust direction with the TLS handshake on the backend side, but it seems they're goin…
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Dallas is a great location if you want one central point to cover the US well. Chicago is also good, maybe even a little better. Now your users may not notice at all, depending on what you're hosting. It does depend on how much it matters, but…
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(Quote) How can you promise 100% Privacy, no logs, no tracking, when your website pulls in "cloudflareinsights.com?"
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"100% Privacy • No Logs • No Tracking" -- then what is "cloudflareinsights.com" for?
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I have slowservers.net running on a 768MB plan without a IPv4 address. This ends up being $3/month, or rather $36/year if a customer wanted the same thing. OpenBSD 7.9 gmid for Gemini httpd for static web Users can SSH in and use a Perl script for …
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I'm sorry to hear about your health. I hope that the news is positive! At this point in my life, family keeps running into more and more health issues. I miss my younger years when I felt invincible, and no one had any health concerns... I am…
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(Quote) I haven't compared it to modern setups with very large hosts. However, a major thing that helps is using 35W TDP 6 core processors. There's definitely a large element of performance to energy tradeoff. It's possible that some …
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This sounds a little bit fishy to me...
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(Quote) Unfortunately, I haven't set things up for that. I don't even have BGP sessions running yet, though I do plan to.
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From GTHost: 1 x E5-2650v2 128GB DDR3 2x800GB SSD 300Mbit/s Unmetered Montreal (CA) 64 USD Just a hair more expensive.
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(Quote) Are you asking if you can bring your own IP space with BGP, or if I use BGP? (Quote) Almost! A customer offered an ounce of silver, but didn't see my email back in time. Ended up already using the ounce. Sent me cash instead.
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(Quote) Thank you so much! I appreciate it! (Quote) Thank you! My daily driver has 4x the memory, but some provider websites are painful to load. The ones with animated backgrounds slow things to a crawl. The HTTPS site is proxied from Gemini. I&#…
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(Quote) Oh yeah, it definitely goes down. I think though that if you need a more reliable service, you should pay for it. Lots of good paid email hosts, like Mythic Beasts, Posteo, or FastMail.
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I think this one supports direct SMTP/IMAP. In fact, their web client uses SMTP/IMAP over websockets. https://cock.li/
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This is YABS from a "slowservers-2gb" (2GB memory, 1 vCPU, 64GB disk, routed /64, 1x IPv4) VPS running Debian 13 on Loki. Located in the Levy Building in Spokane, Washington (USA.) Hypervisor is OpenBSD's VMM. Hardware is used and des…
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(Quote) Yikes! Thank you for sharing. Some very sketchy stuff.
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Looks good and well priced to me! (Quote) I don't want to derail this thread, but is there somewhere I can look to learn more about LET/LEB shadiness? I don't know of any issues, personally.
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How bad is your downtime currently? How much downtime is acceptable? Do you know why it's going down? Shared hosting isn't necessary unreliable, but it can be. Is this a static site? Dynamic but readonly, or dynamic and writable?
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I think it really defeats a lot of the purpose of crypto to use a major KYC payment provider like Paypal. Better to use your own nodes and have a gateway that you control. I know that's a lot more work, but Bitpay and the like has been a thorn…
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Wow! This sounds like a huge pain. I wonder how they track state of which page to go to next? I think there would have to be a mesh or some kind of centralized system to know what to crawl. Would be interesting to see how that operates. These must…
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Have you noticed any user agents in common or IP ranges in common?
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Through SporeStack / SporeStack EU I have IPv6 only (/128) available. 2 vCPUs if you get the 4GB of memory plan. Mail ports might be blocked there, but I think I can unblock them. Through Slow Servers I have routed /64 VPSs (also IPv6-only). Only o…
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That cap is really important if you are power-bound in your datacenter. There's also thermal considerations that some datacenters can only cool so much per rack. I went in a very different direction with Slow Servers and picked very low TDP pr…
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Having a master node that your slaves forward into is the easiest option, IMO. Just pass the /.well-known path via a proxy on your webserver. Only run certbot on your master.
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Tierhive is impressively cheap -- I'm not sure what more of a "deal" you're looking for. In 9+ years in business with SporeStack, I've never offered a "deal." I completely understand why someone would want servers…
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I'm coming from a completely different perspective on all of this. I've only worked with homegrown systems and OpenStack Nova. WHCMS is quite foreign to me, and I've never used VirtFusion, Virtualizor, or SolusVM. I wrote my own pro…
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Very nice! There are some shortcuts with deselecting sets. You can do -x*, for instance, to remove anything x related. Now there are some limitations like this. You certainly lose some security aspects of multiple partitions and kernel relinking w…
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There's a few factors for me. One is cost. I explicitly preference smaller companies. I also run OpenBSD whenever possible, and ease of running OpenBSD is a factor. I have three external name servers that also provide monitoring services. ARP…
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Your website and offering looks a lot better than many I've seen. Nice work!
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That is quite something! Thank you for posting. I haven't encountered that yet, but I'll be on the lookout for it. AI is bringing us closer and closer to the point of being suspicious about everything, and to trust nothing. It used to jus…
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All of Slow Servers' hosts use DDR3. It's sufficient for many uses and certainly cheaper.
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What exactly is a "Intel Special" (the $19/month one?)
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I don't see Looking Glass for Port Edwards or San Angelo. I'm surprised that a half rack with 20A is $349 and a full rack with 20A is $699 in Port Edwards. Seems like a particularly good deal on that half rack!